To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate she has made of the number of NHS staff whose pay has been (a) frozen and (b) reduced under the agenda for change; and if she will make a statement. (116408)

From the central data collected on agenda for change assimilation, at the end of March 2006 4.7 per cent. of staff had their pay protected. The protection arrangements under agenda for change, agreed in partnership with the unions, were intended to ensure that no one had their pay reduced on assimilation to the agenda for change pay system.